View full sizeContender for the GOP presidential nomination, former Massachussetts Gov. Mitt Romney appeared in Mobile, Ala., Monday, March 12, 2012, at the Whistle Stop for a live broadcast on the Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends. (Press-Register/Mike Kittrell)

View full sizeContender for the GOP presidential nomination, former Massachussetts Gov. Mitt Romney appeared in Mobile, Ala., Monday, March 12, 2012, at the Whistle Stop for a live broadcast on the Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends. Comedian Jeff Foxworthy is at left. (Press-Register/Mike Kittrell)

MOBILE, Alabama -- Former Massachussetts Gov. Mitt Romney brought his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination to Mobile this morning, telling a rain-soaked audience at the Whistle Stop Cafe that he's the right man to defeat President Barack Obama in the fall general election.

"This president has done almost everything wrong," Romney said from the restaurant's front porch. "This guy is out of ideas, and he's out of excuses, and in 2012, we're going to make sure he's out of office."

Romney appeared at the restaurant as part of a live broadcast on the Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends."

He was joined by Southern comedian Jeff Foxworthy, who said Romney had the experience needed to get the U.S. economy back on track.

"I avoided politics for 53 years," he said. "I don't like politics, I don't like big government. But I do love this country...Mitt Romney is the guy with the best chance to beat Obama and take this country back."

Romney is battling Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul for the GOP nomination. Voters in Alabama and Mississippi go to the polls Tuesday in what is being billed as the "Southern Super Tuesday" election.